Rep. Brad Sherman won’t reveal what he said to Lisa Kaplan two years ago when he spied her picking up take-out Chinese food on Capitol Hill.

But whatever it was, it must have worked. The couple is to be wed Sunday at Calamigos Ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains.

“Let’s try to keep some things private,” the six-term Sherman Oaks congressman pleaded when asked to describe the couple’s first exchange. “Which pickup line Sherman used will be forever held secret.”

I give him props for not using the Al Gorish “lockbox” terminology.

We’ve poked fun at the congressman before, but in all seriousness, I offer my congratulations to Brad and Lisa (notice how we’re on a first-name basis).

I first met Brad back in the 1990s when I was at the Glendale News-Press, and he was either running for or already on the state
Board of Equalization, and his big issue was repealing the “snack tax,” which levied sales taxes on foods deemed “snacks,” while other kinds of food were not taxed at all. I could feel, even then, that the whole snack-tax thing was just a stepping stone for him, and I don’t remember if we editorialized on the issue, but I give him credit for hauling it over to a small newspaper’s editorial board. Even then he was making CPA jokes.

Besides being an accountant, he’s also an attorney (specializing in tax issues) with a degree from Harvard Law. Maybe now, with a Democratic majority, he’ll get a few cans of whoop-ass to open up on the other side of the aisle.

Enough meandering. He’s got to honeymoon swiftly and be back for the new Congress next year.